how to configure email?

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In <f66dndQe-8n61uHcRVn-vA@adelphia.com> on Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:40:05 -0400,
"gabbo" <gabbo@netsync.net> wrote:

>Just got a new T637 and so far very happy.
>
>I have just about everything working the way I want, but I have no idea how
>to configure "standard" email. Text messaging and MMS is working fine - I
>can send and receive, but I would like to have email capability that doesn't
>show messages coming from me with the address in the form:
>7773452345@mms.mycingular.com ...
>
>Is there a tutorial or web page somewhere that describes what the
>appropriate settings are for the cingular network?
>
>Thanks for any suggestions.

You cannot retrieve your 7773452345@mms.mycingular.com email on your phone,
since Cingular doesn't support POP3/IMAP access (only WAP). The email client
in your phone only works with a regular ISP.

--
Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

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Eric, thanks! I have been messing around with this for a week - the
"photo.mycingular.com" was the piece I was missing. I just successfully sent
and received email from the phone using your suggestions.

-Mark

"Eric Cronin" <ecronin@cis.upenn.edu> wrote in message
news:clj5np$rfi$1@netnews.upenn.edu...
> gabbo wrote:
>> Just got a new T637 and so far very happy.
>>
>> I have just about everything working the way I want, but I have no idea
>> how to configure "standard" email. Text messaging and MMS is working
>> fine - I can send and receive, but I would like to have email capability
>> that doesn't show messages coming from me with the address in the form:
>> 7773452345@mms.mycingular.com ...
>>
>> Is there a tutorial or web page somewhere that describes what the
>> appropriate settings are for the cingular network?
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> To configure the POP/IMAP/SMTP e-mail client, go to
> Messages->Email->Options->Edit Account and create a new account for
> whatever "standard" e-mail profile you'd like. You need to fill in your
> incoming (POP/IMAP) and outgoing mail servers then, as well as your name,
> reply-too address, etc just like on a normal PC e-mail client.
>
> One catch here is that since you will be connecting to your e-mail account
> from a Cingular WAP IP address, many ISP's won't let you access their SMTP
> server to send outgoing mail. As far as I've been able to determine,
> Cingular doesn't provide a smtp server for this purpose, so I have been
> using photo.mycingular.com which works, but puts an annoying ad at the end
> of each message...
>
> Sending and receiving mail this way uses the GPRS data connection, so you
> need to have a plan that allows this (e.g. any of the MEdia ones).
>
> Thanks,
> Eric